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heterecious

heterecious adjective: living on one host at one stage (or generation) and then upon another in the next.

Adjective

heterecious (not comparable)

  1. living on one host at one stage (or generation) and then upon another in the next

Questions about heterecious

What does heterecious mean?
Heterecious means living on one host at one stage (or generation) and then upon another in the next.
What part of speech is heterecious?
Heterecious is an adjective.

Words near heterecious in the dictionary

  1. heterarchies
  2. heterarchy
  3. heterauxesis
  4. heterauxetic
  5. heterdimeric
  6. heterecious
  7. heterenchelyid
  8. heterenchelyids
  9. hetereodimerize
  10. hetereogeneity
  11. heteric

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